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Mr. Paice
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of total income tax yield was paid by (a) the bottom 10 per cent. of taxpayers, (b) the median 10 per cent. of taxpayers and (c) the top 10 per cent. of tax payers, in the last year for which figures are available. [3351]
Dawn Primarolo
Estimates for 1997–98 are given in the following table:
| Group of taxpayers per cent. | Percentage of total income tax |
| Bottom 10 | 1— |
| 45–55 | 6 |
| Top 10 | 46 |
| 1Less than 0.5 per cent. | |